The Last King Of Darkness-Chapter 1565 - 742: Holy Fire Seed

Light Stone, Pure Star Marrow, Pure Star Source are all considered the highest soul elements for humans, among which Pure Star Source is the most versatile and widely applicable. The Pure Star Source Potion it produces has an incredible enhancement effect on everyone, largely contributing to Trolian’s current strength, thanks to the Pure Star Source Rod and his companions brought back from Horror Castle.

The usage of Light Stone is narrower, currently only effective for those whose soul trait includes "light." High-efficiency applications similar to Pure Star Source Potion have yet to be developed.

Pure Star Marrow is similar; its only current use is Rod’s creation of [Kales’ Soul Cannon] or activating [Spirit Boat] for routine teleportation gates, with no precedent of use for humans.

Of course, the current issue is how to acquire more Light Stone or Pure Star Marrow, which can only be obtained by excavating relics or finding the legacy of ancient human heroes. Bossivale can indeed refine Pure Star Marrow, but it usually takes several dozen weeks to produce one batch, with terribly low efficiency.

Even the best alchemical pharmaceuticals cannot find a way to refine these into potions without materials.

To supply the Ascension Ceremony is even more impossible.

From the first round, 2 batches are required, and by the fifth round, 32 batches would be needed.

This is not a small number, and Rod has yet to see more than two Light Stones or Pure Star Marrows.

Moreover, it requires 1 Divine Stone.

"Book, what is a Divine Stone?"

The Book of Knowledge flipped its pages, and spots of white light flickered between them, indicating its soul power at work. This time, it quickly found the answer.

"It is the Divine Stone, formed by merging the Divine Flower into a perfect primitive stone to create a stable element containing high divinity."

Rod’s face darkened immediately: "Divine Flower?"

"Yes, an efficient condensate of 1000 units of divinity, with which 1 Divine Flower can produce 10 to 20 Divine Stones." 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

That means 50 to 100 units of divinity are used to make one Divine Stone.

Rod felt relieved in his heart.

This was still within the range he could endure. Fortunately, unlike the Soul Flower or Spiritual Flower, 1 Soul Flower requires 100 million souls without spirit to condense into one unit, and 1 Spiritual Flower requires 100,000 spirituality units. The Divine Flower requires only 1000 units.

These Elemental Flowers are efficient condensates of their respective elements, equal in function but more efficient and faster, generally used to create higher-grade materials.

But soon, he realized a question: "What is a perfect primitive stone?"

The Book of Knowledge answered: "It is an almost perfect element carrier, not polluting any element, able to fix them in a special form for use. It has many special uses and is a very important element medium for humanity."

"Why haven’t I seen it before?"

"Primitive stones are only produced on the main continent, with very little production on the edge continent. Already mined primitive stones are either used or polluted and turned into Black Mist Stones, which are ominously strong pollutants, so you must be careful when going to the main continent..."

Rod frowned: "But I haven’t seen it in human relics either."

The Book of Knowledge flipped its pages, slowly explaining:

"Primitive stones are highly susceptible to pollution, with natural primitive stones containing many impurities. Perfect primitive stones are refined through processing. Their spirituality is extremely active, so no matter how they’re preserved, impurities gradually increase over time, eventually turning back into regular stones. Thus, once produced, they’re immediately used, so you wouldn’t find them in ancient human relics. Even if you did, you’d only think it was a stone."

"It’s the same with refined Divine Stones, which can’t be stored by any means outside of the storage in the Dream Realm."

Rod felt his heart sink, realizing that finding primitive stones would be a difficult task in the future.

"Book, is the Ascension Ceremony useful to me?"

The Book of Knowledge fell silent for a long time, then answered: "Yes, but its effect for you is merely to enhance the soul. To ascend to True King, you must awaken the Giant Star and have more than 4,000,000 units of absolute spiritual power."

Rod nodded but did not have high expectations.

For him, the Ascension Ceremony’s enhancement is not as powerful as lighting the Star. Unlike regular Fire Holders, he cannot directly increase the strength of Source Law. He only needs to light and awaken the Star to naturally possess more and stronger Source Law, and unlike them, he doesn’t need special carriers to hold his soul and root origin; the Star itself is the carrier.

For him, the most important thing is divinity, using the Ascension Ceremony to enhance strong humans, thereby bringing him divinity is the best.

Moreover, it helps him convert Dream Envoys and gain more divinity.

However, from the information Blood God left behind, Rod learned that the most important thing was not the Ascension Ceremony itself, but the qualification to perform it.

Many human heroes, despite having extremely strong souls, could not perform the Ascension Ceremony.

This is because, after the first round of the Ascension Ceremony, each subsequent round requires the soul to completely digest the "Inspiration Power" brought by it, reaching a special state to carry out the ceremony.